After Charlottesville: Overdue Time To Restore Decency To Our Politics
After Charlottesville, our politics have now borne witness to a U.S. president at times openly defending neo-Nazis and white supremacists before condemning them. As mourners gathered to remember the life of Heather Heyer, who was killed while protesting against hate, the president asserted the moral equivalence of the actions of neo-Nazis and those who opposed them.
This was, perhaps, the inevitable culmination of an increasing ugliness in American politics, which reached a crescendo in the presidential campaign of 2016. Dog whistle appeals to racists and xenophobes substituted for a serious discussion of the economic and social pressures facing millions of hard-pressed Americans.
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